When Our Customers Succeed, We Succeed

Our customers are our lifeblood, and they have some amazing stories to share. Read how companies of all shapes and sizes are streamlining finance with Host Analytics.

Customer Success

Implementation Host is fast and affordable to deploy, with most customers reaching go live in just 8-12 weeks. Our consultants and partners are finance and EPM experts who will work with you on how to best fit your needs, ensuring a low burden on IT resources.

Support With support options customizable to fit your needs, our team of finance experts is available to ensure you get the most out of your investment in Host Analytics.

Education Customers gain access to training courses, bootcamps, and local user groups. Our online community makes it easy to connect and share best practices, tips and tricks, and submit enhancement requests.

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Case Studies

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Planar

Having Host Analytics as Planar’s Enterprise Performance Management EPM platform made it easier to track performance and automate reporting while supporting management’s global objectives. Host Analytics brought efficiency and eliminated errors to a business that was solely dependent on Excel before 2010.

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox primarily used Excel spreadsheets for budgeting and reporting, which are error prone and hard to track. They turned to Host Analytics to speed up and centralize the budget planning and reporting process. Providing a single cloud-based system to input data, Host Analytics helped eliminate manual errors, ensuring that each manager had the most up-to-date data for real-time insights.

Foundation Building Materials

Onur Demirkaya, VP of Finance at Foundation Building Materials discusses why Host Analytics was the right cloud-based EPM application that helped make their global scalability and expansion more seamless.

Augusta Sportswear Teams Up With Host Analytics for Better Insights

Mark Brown, Director of FP&A at Augusta Sportswear relied on a heavily manual process that didn’t allow his team to integrate with other business units. With their use of Host Analytics, the financial process has become faster and easier, freeing the team to focus on improving overall business operations.

LT Apparel Group

Lee Johnston looked to Host Analytics to cut down on the time to budget reporting – previously working on multiple spreadsheets in different locations, Host Analytics became the ideal solution to their budgeting nightmare.

Swissport

When Kim Lanham, Senior Director of FP&A started at Swissport in 2015, she was told she would be consolidating 2,000 spreadsheets come budget season. She responded by on-boarding Host Analytics, which allowed them to make better business decisions and put essential financial data right at their fingertips.

Emission Monitoring Services

Israel Askew, Chief Financial Officer at Emission Monitoring Services talks about how the adoption of Host Analytics helped the company keep better control of their budgeting and bidding processes. Host presented the company with a user-friendly tool that’s had a big impact on employee performance.

Medrobotics

Before Host Analytics, Medrobotics used Excel which contained 40-plus individual tabs for compiling cost center budgets, profit and loss balance sheets and cash flow statements. Going from a budget building, review and approval process that would take up to four months with Excel, Medrobotics was able to reduce that to just six weeks with Host Analytics.

PS Logistics

Before bringing in Host Analytics, PS Logistics struggled with financial reporting. They relied heavily on manual spreadsheets which were prone to error and meant reporting took days. Since implementing Host Analytics, these financial reporting tasks take 80% less time to complete, instilling more trust and integrity into the financial department.

Golden State Foods

Brad Tingey, Corporate Controller at Golden State Foods talks about how they are using Host Analytics’ cloud-based Consolidation solution to address their complex financial close and reporting process. Providing one source of truth, Host Analytics helps disperse information consistently across the organization.

Highlights for Children

Cheri Routzhan, Vice President of Finance from Highlights for Children talks about their legacy budget forecasting process that was time consuming and ineffective. After adopting Host Analytics, the Finance department was able to dynamically integrate accurate reporting to create better organizational flow–allowing them to focus on strategic plans and the business vision.

IAFF

Warren May, Controller for International Association of Firefighters, speaks about the organization’s challenges in using manual spreadsheets, which were 20 years old. Host Analytics delivered on a modern user interface that had a familiar feel as well as a cloud-based architecture, which made data available remotely. As a result of using Host, the IAFF enabled budget owners to take accountability of their financials.

Thrivent Financial

Darci Bontrager, Sr. Accountant from Thrivent Financial, speaks about their use of Host Analytics from BusinessObjects Planning. After choosing Host Analytics and on-boarding 475 users, 23 divisions, 10 super-users, and 3 admins, reporting efficiencies increased significantly. Reports that used to take over a week to pull together are now ready in a few hours. Through Host Analytics, departments are able to self-serve, thus improving operational efficiency.

St. Vincent’s Hospital

Paul Kirchner, Financial Controller from St. Vincent’s Hospital discusses the issues they faced previously through fragmented budget solutions. By adopting Host Analytics, St. Vincent’s unified their private hospital network’s budgeting approach–improving rigor around the budgeting process as well as standardizing and streamlining internal resources.

CBIZ

Andy Dambrosio, Corporate Controller from CBIZ, discusses the move from BusinessObjects to Host Analytics. Implementing budgeting, planning, reporting and analytics modules within Host Analytics, CBIZ is able to make better and more timely management decisions.

Capitol Petroleum Group

Janet Golla, Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis from Capitol Petroleum Group, speaks about their adoption of Host Analytics – previously using a series of Excel spreadsheets. As the company expanded, they couldn’t plan efficiently with their old system. Through Host Analytics, Capitol Petroleum was able to use data in ways they hadn’t thought of before. The biggest impact was the confidence they gained in giving management a forecast they can substantiate.

Abbott Nutrition

Faith Nobile, FP&A Manager from Abbott Nutrition discusses the transformation in their financial systems as a result of using Host Analytics. With Host Analytics, the company saw direct benefits in their financial system and gained confidence in their overall business knowledge. The financial organization is now able to come to the table and help be part of the decision making process without having to worry about credibility.

Mister Car Wash

Bruce Schumacher, Director of Strategic Initiatives from Mister Car Wash, discusses how Host Analytics improved their budgeting process, greatly reducing budget cycles while being able to double in size as a company. They love the use of ad-hoc reports from Host, which allow them to pull key data out of the system and do analysis quickly and easily.

The Warranty Group

Keith Pekarek, Director of Finance from The Warranty Group speaks about how Host Analytics helped modernize their previously clunky budgeting tool into an accurate, forward-looking forecasting process. Through the help of Host, the forecasting process is quicker and more accurate, providing management with the information they need to make key business decisions.

Intermatic

Tony Meister, CFO of Intermatic Corporation speaks about how they embraced Host Analytics for their flexibility–having no down time with a cloud-based application. Host Analytics gave the Intermatic team access to core business information, being able to find exactly the right information to do their jobs efficiently.

Mark Pishon – IEDC

Mark Pishon, CFO of IEDC discusses how they forged new directions with Host Analytics in the cloud. One of the biggest benefits was the high visibility, transformation and accountability Host provided within the organization. The report functions within Host Analytics were so powerful that IEDC moved their entire financial reporting process.

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Having Host Analytics as Planar’s Enterprise Performance Management EPM platform made it easier to track performance and automate reporting while supporting management’s global objectives. Host Analytics brought efficiency and eliminated errors to a business that was solely dependent on Excel before 2010.

The Boston Red Sox primarily used Excel spreadsheets for budgeting and reporting, which are error prone and hard to track. They turned to Host Analytics to speed up and centralize the budget planning and reporting process. Providing a single cloud-based system to input data, Host Analytics helped eliminate manual errors, ensuring that each manager had the most up-to-date data for real-time insights.

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Retail

Foundation Building Materials

Onur Demirkaya, VP of Finance at Foundation Building Materials discusses

Onur Demirkaya, VP of Finance at Foundation Building Materials discusses why Host Analytics was the right cloud-based EPM application that helped make their global scalability and expansion more seamless.

Mark Brown, Director of FP&A at Augusta Sportswear relied on a heavily manual process that didn’t allow his team to integrate with other business units. With their use of Host Analytics, the financial process has become faster and easier, freeing the team to focus on improving overall business operations.

Lee Johnston looked to Host Analytics to cut down on the time to budget reporting – previously working on multiple spreadsheets in different locations, Host Analytics became the ideal solution to their budgeting nightmare.

When Kim Lanham, Senior Director of FP&A started at Swissport in 2015, she was told she would be consolidating 2,000 spreadsheets come budget season. She responded by on-boarding Host Analytics, which allowed them to make better business decisions and put essential financial data right at their fingertips.

Israel Askew, Chief Financial Officer at Emission Monitoring Services talks about how the adoption of Host Analytics helped the company keep better control of their budgeting and bidding processes. Host presented the company with a user-friendly tool that’s had a big impact on employee performance.

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Life Sciences/Biotech

Medrobotics

Before Host Analytics, Medrobotics used Excel which contained 40-plus individual

Before Host Analytics, Medrobotics used Excel which contained 40-plus individual tabs for compiling cost center budgets, profit and loss balance sheets and cash flow statements. Going from a budget building, review and approval process that would take up to four months with Excel, Medrobotics was able to reduce that to just six weeks with Host Analytics.

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Transportation

PS Logistics

Before bringing in Host Analytics, PS Logistics struggled with financial

Before bringing in Host Analytics, PS Logistics struggled with financial reporting. They relied heavily on manual spreadsheets which were prone to error and meant reporting took days. Since implementing Host Analytics, these financial reporting tasks take 80% less time to complete, instilling more trust and integrity into the financial department.

Brad Tingey, Corporate Controller at Golden State Foods talks about how they are using Host Analytics’ cloud-based Consolidation solution to address their complex financial close and reporting process. Providing one source of truth, Host Analytics helps disperse information consistently across the organization.

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Media

Highlights for Children

Cheri Routzhan, Vice President of Finance from Highlights for Children

Cheri Routzhan, Vice President of Finance from Highlights for Children talks about their legacy budget forecasting process that was time consuming and ineffective. After adopting Host Analytics, the Finance department was able to dynamically integrate accurate reporting to create better organizational flow–allowing them to focus on strategic plans and the business vision.

Play Video >>

Services

IAFF

Warren May, Controller for International Association of Firefighters, speaks about

Warren May, Controller for International Association of Firefighters, speaks about the organization’s challenges in using manual spreadsheets, which were 20 years old. Host Analytics delivered on a modern user interface that had a familiar feel as well as a cloud-based architecture, which made data available remotely. As a result of using Host, the IAFF enabled budget owners to take accountability of their financials.

Play Video >>

Services

Thrivent Financial

Darci Bontrager, Sr. Accountant from Thrivent Financial, speaks about their

Darci Bontrager, Sr. Accountant from Thrivent Financial, speaks about their use of Host Analytics from BusinessObjects Planning. After choosing Host Analytics and on-boarding 475 users, 23 divisions, 10 super-users, and 3 admins, reporting efficiencies increased significantly. Reports that used to take over a week to pull together are now ready in a few hours. Through Host Analytics, departments are able to self-serve, thus improving operational efficiency.

Play Video >>

Life Sciences/Biotech

St. Vincent’s Hospital

Paul Kirchner, Financial Controller from St. Vincent’s Hospital discusses the

Andy Dambrosio, Corporate Controller from CBIZ, discusses the move from BusinessObjects to Host Analytics. Implementing budgeting, planning, reporting and analytics modules within Host Analytics, CBIZ is able to make better and more timely management decisions.

Janet Golla, Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis from Capitol Petroleum Group, speaks about their adoption of Host Analytics – previously using a series of Excel spreadsheets. As the company expanded, they couldn’t plan efficiently with their old system. Through Host Analytics, Capitol Petroleum was able to use data in ways they hadn’t thought of before. The biggest impact was the confidence they gained in giving management a forecast they can substantiate.

Faith Nobile, FP&A Manager from Abbott Nutrition discusses the transformation in their financial systems as a result of using Host Analytics. With Host Analytics, the company saw direct benefits in their financial system and gained confidence in their overall business knowledge. The financial organization is now able to come to the table and help be part of the decision making process without having to worry about credibility.

Bruce Schumacher, Director of Strategic Initiatives from Mister Car Wash, discusses how Host Analytics improved their budgeting process, greatly reducing budget cycles while being able to double in size as a company. They love the use of ad-hoc reports from Host, which allow them to pull key data out of the system and do analysis quickly and easily.

Keith Pekarek, Director of Finance from The Warranty Group speaks about how Host Analytics helped modernize their previously clunky budgeting tool into an accurate, forward-looking forecasting process. Through the help of Host, the forecasting process is quicker and more accurate, providing management with the information they need to make key business decisions.

Tony Meister, CFO of Intermatic Corporation speaks about how they embraced Host Analytics for their flexibility–having no down time with a cloud-based application. Host Analytics gave the Intermatic team access to core business information, being able to find exactly the right information to do their jobs efficiently.

Mark Pishon, CFO of IEDC discusses how they forged new directions with Host Analytics in the cloud. One of the biggest benefits was the high visibility, transformation and accountability Host provided within the organization. The report functions within Host Analytics were so powerful that IEDC moved their entire financial reporting process.

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Awards and Recognition

Host Analytics Named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions for the third consecutive year.

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